AJ Sadler (they/them)

AMFT #157238, APCC #20234
Accepting Clients

Therapy for understanding what shaped you—and creating more choice in what comes next.

Associate Marriage & Family Therapist in California
Supervised by Rayne Banneck, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

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Services
  • Individual
  • Couples
  • Adolescent/Teen

About My Clients

Many of my clients are neurodivergent, queer or trans, living with chronic illness, navigating developmental or complex trauma, or trying to build relationships that work differently from what they were taught to expect. You may understand yourself intellectually but still find old patterns taking over when you're overwhelmed, hurt, or disconnected. I work with adults, teens, families, couples, polycules, and other relationship structures.

My Background and Approach

I’m a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Clinical Counselor with an MA in Integral Counseling Psychology. My work is relational, trauma-informed, neuro-affirming, and deeply contextual. I show up as a real person in the room—expressive, engaged, curious, and direct, always grounded in care. Rather than looking at a symptom or behavior in isolation, I want to understand how it came to make sense: What has this pattern protected? What has your nervous system learned? What relationships and experiences shaped it? Therapy with me is active and collaborative. We might map a relationship pattern, notice what’s happening in your body, explore protective responses, build concrete regulation or communication skills, challenge an old story, or slow something down enough to experience it differently. I draw flexibly from relational, attachment-based, experiential, somatic/nervous system, parts-based, EFT-informed, and DBT-informed approaches.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

I’m white, queer, non-binary, neurodivergent (AuDHD), and of European ancestry. My values are rooted in curiosity, authenticity, humility, reciprocity, compassion, accountability, and collective liberation. I don’t believe our struggles can be understood separately from the relationships, communities, cultures, environments, and systems that shape us. White supremacy culture, capitalism, ableism, cisheteronormativity, mononormativity, colonialism, and spiritual or religious harm influence whose needs are accommodated, what we learn to suppress to belong, and what we come to believe about ourselves and each other. For me, healing can hold multiple truths at once: understanding why something developed without pretending it isn’t causing harm; accepting ourselves without giving up our capacity for change; and building individual agency while recognizing that not everything we struggle with is an individual problem. Practicing under the auspices of Axis Mundi Center for Mental Health.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Attachment Theory Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Somatic Therapy: Body-Based Healing for Emotional Trauma
Other Techniques
  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
  • Addiction Counseling
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
  • Collaborative Couple Therapy
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Depth Therapy
  • Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
  • Existential Therapy
  • Family Systems
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Integral Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Narrative Therapy
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Relational Therapy
  • Transpersonal Therapy
  • Integrative Therapy
  • Internal Family Systems
  • Trauma Therapy
  • Relationship Counseling

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Addiction ADHD Therapists Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Adoption Issues
  • Anxiety
  • Attachment
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Body Image Issues
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Chronic Pain or Illness
  • Depression
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Gender Identity Therapy
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • LGBTQ-Friendly Therapists
  • Marriage Counseling
  • Men's Issues
  • Parenting
  • Physical Disability
  • Polyamorous and Open Relationships
  • Racial Identity
  • Relationship Issues
  • Self-Esteem
  • Spirituality
  • Suicidal Thoughts
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
  • Teen Issues
  • Veterans/Military Service
  • Women's Issues

Client Focus

Languages
English

Qualifications

Supervision
Supervised by Rayne Banneck, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist · 124607
Years in practice
2 years
I offer online counseling in the following states:
I have experience with the following
  • Buddhism
  • Christianity
  • Jainism
  • Sikhism
  • Interfaith

Hours & Availability

New clients welcome
Currently accepting new clients
Telehealth
Available

At A Glance

  • Experience: 2 years of practice
  • Languages: English
  • Rate: $150 - 225/session

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